FUCKING loud

Today you tell me only to report the loudest jets. Yet, prior to March 2015, we had very few jets and no complaints. Nothing was loud but my neighbor's renters at the AirBNB. If I am subjected to 150 flights a day on SERFR1 and approx 300 flights in several departure paths, dozens of arrivals and departures to and from Hawaii, where all of the flights are breathtakingly loud, which ones do I report as being the loudest? I didn't buy a house in a flight path. I bought a house in a remote forest location. I'm 60 miles from SFO. 55 From Oakland. 40+ from SJC. Now I'm being overflown by 100s of jets a day. Surfair commuters flights about 50. Huge cargo jets, and commercial airlines in and out of SJC all day long. Flights out of Oakland. Flights out of Hayward. Flights out of Palo Alto. Flights out of Santa Rosa. Flights from Santa Maria, from SLO, From Santa Barbara, Hawthorne, LAX, San Diego. Flights from Minneapolis, Flights from Denver. Flights from Montreal, Flights from Phoenix. Hundreds upon hundreds of flights and on the side of a canyon in a remote forest location, every. single. flight is FUCKING LOUD.

The Unbearable Lightness of Speeding

For those of you who are logging the SERFR flights and noticing all the speed violations*... 

The higher the speed, the more the noise... 

Maybe you heard the Asiana flight this morning a little before 5:00AM under 10K' at 344 kt ...

Jolted me awake!

Send your complaints to FAA Flight Standards.

They are the team responsible for enforcing the airlines to comply. 

Our regional contact is:

Jeff Ebey (408) 291-7681 (main number) jeffrey.e.ebey(AT)faa.gov

Jeff's supervisor is Ken Heitzman, his extension is #146

Be careful not to complain about the "noise" or you'll be told to call SFO noise abatement. (that's another post for another time).

The FAA flight standards team only care about violations, they don't care about noise. This may come as a big surprise... 

§ 91.117 Aircraft speed*.

(a) Unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator, no person may operate an aircraft below 10,000 feet MSL at an indicated airspeed of more than 250 knots (288 m.p.h.).